When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Source: In I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker, 1989.
-- Margaret Walker, (Jul 7 1915-1998), US writer, educator; She was one of the most important poets, 1930s; For My People captured the struggles of Southern blacks and won the Yale Younger Poets Award, 1942.